In the Media

Many retirees lose track of pension money they are owed when companies merge, change names, or close down. But the New England Pension Assistance Project at UMass Boston has recovered $41 million for more than 6,000 people since 1994.

Article on the Pension Action Center of the Gerontology Institute at UMass Boston, which has recently expanded to serving retirees in Illinois who have questions about their traditional pensions, 401(k) plans, or other employer-sponsored retirement plans.

Jeanne Medeiros, managing attorney for the New England Pension Assistance Project, is quoted in this article on "recoupment," in which a plan administrator orders a participant to return benefit amounts that he was accidentally overpaid.

Article on how people nearing retirement can check on the status of their pensions mentions the Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center, which provides free pension help to New England residents.

On page 11, article on how the New England Pension Assistance Project, which is part of UMass Boston’s Pension Action Center, helped the daughter of a 78-year-old woman with limited English proficiency secure a survivor’s benefit for her mother under her late husband’s union pension plan.